Today I saw everyone talking about sharding and parallelism again, the discussion was quite lively, but I’ll pause here for now… To be honest, the faster the chain, the more it costs; the first issues that arise are often not performance, but how you allocate your assets and whether you can exit smoothly when needed. Recently, miners/validators’ income, MEV, and fairness in ordering have been heavily criticized. I don’t really understand those details, I just feel like “you think you’re queuing, but actually the order in the line is changing underwater.” So I’m mostly stopping checking candlestick charts now, and instead paying more attention to contract permissions, cross-chain bridges, and withdrawal channels. If you can go through the mainnet, don’t take too convoluted a route, and clear your authorizations before bed… Anyway, that’s how I’m doing it for now, slowly watching the tides.